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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1967
Page
5
Pacific Palisades CalifAP Comedienne Nanette Fabray won a stay of the ax in a drive to protect a stand of trees near her home. As honorary mayor she led the effort to save the trees, including 1000 year old oaks, after a land developer agreed to an alternative plan to spare them.
Folk singer Joan Baez, 26, pleaded no contest to disturbing the peace for a Vietnam protest sit in at the Oakland Induction Center. She was sentenced to 90 days in jail with 45 days suspended and placed on probation for a year.
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey will depart Washington Friday for the Christmas holidays. Mrs. Humphrey left Wednesday for the Waverly Minnesota home. He plans to visit his mother in Huron South Dakota before continuing to Waverly for the weekend and return to Washington next Wednesday.
Washington AP John Steinbeck IV son of the author was found innocent of a nuisance charge tied to marijuana in his apartment. A jury delivered Wednesday after he testified the cannabis did not belong to him. A separate possession charge was dropped earlier. Steinbeck said he sometimes used marijuana for research while writing.
In Portland Oregon the area saw its first real snowfall in three years drawing mixed reaction. A high school teacher William Stocking said the snow was needed after a dry summer while salesman Richard Bowman complained his car was stuck for over two hours delaying an appointment.
In Butte Montana during the 1967 copper strike 3 young Gustavsen brothers sing for pennies to aid their strikebound family. Mothers count food stamps and a $10 weekly union coupon while miners face shortages and hunger. 50,000 copper workers idle across several states as towns collect gifts and aid.
Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy says Johnson misreads antiwar foes and that the televised interview fuels confusion over war policy. He seeks equal network time as he campaigns in 1968 primaries, while Kennedy and Rockefeller are cited as potential rivals in the evolving political contest.
US command reports Red gunners fired three Soviet built surface to air missiles at a flight of B52 bombers near the demilitarized zone. All three missiles missed and the bombers escaped largely unscathed after evasive action and counterfire by US fighter bombers. Now, Monsoon weather grows over North Vietnam as ground fighting intensifies in the Mekong Delta and near Saigon.
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